I just paid €14,49 for some feature-less text editor…
… and I’m lovin’ it! Writing is hard and distractions are everywhere: twitter, your browser and features, those bloody features. I bet half, maybe even 80% of your word-processing icons and features are unknown to you. You probably only use bold, italic and underline and probably some headings in your text files.
That’s what iA Writer does. It let’s you write.
That’s all it does really, write. No toolbars, no media, no charts, no fonts, no nothing, just a white canvas where you can type on. And by the way, there’s no mouse clicking either. I bet you have to get used to that.
Fullscreen & Focus Mode
Besides that we have a fullscreen mode, true full screen and Focus Mode, something which was introduced in the iPad version of iA Writer. It only highlights the sentence you are currently writing and fades out all other text. I use focus mode 99% of the time while I’m in Writer, it makes writing a lot more productive.
Markdown
The only tools you’re given is a, to me unknown, feature called markdown. It ables you to:
- Create headings
- Create numbered lists
- Hyphenated lists
- Starred lists
- Emphasize text
- Quotes are also possible
- Make text stronger
That’s all we need to do some proper writing. I can highly encourage you to buy it, if you want yourself to be productive at writing.
The power of Writer
To illustrate the effect Writer has on my writing: this article took me about 30 minutes to write, in English, a foreign language to me. It’s 1.44 right now, in the middle of the night, and I just felt like writing. iA Writer allows me to do just that.
It’s of the utmost importance to get more users and developers for MODX. We’re trying to get more users by holding talks for our partners and interested clients. Last friday was the first talk at MediaCT’s office, followed shortly by my talk at Traffic Builder’s office. Both companies are well known and highly respected firms in the Netherlands, so this could mean a real good start for our MODX campaign.